Word Meanings - SHRIVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who shrives; a confessor.

CONFESSORSHIP
The act or state of suffering persecution for religious faith. Our duty to contend even to confessorship. J. H. Newman.
CONFESSOR
1. One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith. He who dies for religion is a martyr; he